Parents Withholding Medical Treatment For Religious Reasons

Children's Medical Treatment and Parents Beliefs

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/parents-beliefs-about-medicine-child-abuse

When Can Parents Deny Medical Care to Children

https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/insurance/health-insurance/when-can-a-parent-deny-medical-treatment-to-a.html

The parent is refusing to grant consent for the treatment; When the State Cannot Make Medical Decisions If any of the factors described above are not present, then states …

Most states' child abuse and neglect laws have …

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/12/most-states-allow-religious-exemptions-from-child-abuse-and-neglect-laws/

But in 34 states (as well as the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico), there are exemptions in the civil child …

Conflicts Between Religious or Spiritual Beliefs and …

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/132/5/962/31761/Conflicts-Between-Religious-or-Spiritual-Beliefs

The HHS revised its position, taking a neutral stance, when the act was reauthorized in 1983: “Nothing in this part should be construed as requiring or …

Limiting Parents' Rights in Medical …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/limiting-parents-rights-medical-decision-making/2006-10

The law’s inquiry into parental competence to provide medical care for a child does not stop at assessing their physical and mental ability …

Blood Transfusions and Medical Care against Religious …

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/908/blood-transfusions-and-medical-care-against-religious-beliefs

In the Child Abuse Prevention Treatment Act of 1996, Congress legislated that there was no federal requirement that a child must be provided “medical service or treatment against …

Parents' refusal of medical treatment based on religious …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15614259/

Parents' refusal of medical treatment based on religious and/or cultural beliefs: the law, ethical principles, and clinical implications When parents apply religious or cultural …

Parents - Ethics, conflict and medical …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537980/

In this chapter, we have identified that parents’ wishes or views about treatment are relevant, though parents may be overruled if treatment would be harmful to the child or to other children. …

Medical Neglect of a Child | LegalMatch

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/medical-neglect-of-a-child.html

In addition to the possibility of a state-appointed intervention occurring, medical neglect can also result in very serious legal consequences for the parent or guardian. For example, the …

Withholding medical care for religious reasons

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00991387

Stimulated by publicity over lawsuits involving parents of children who had died from deprivation of medical care, this article is a survey of the beliefs of religious groups that …